Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Baseball league has some explaining to do
Controversy surrounding the construction of a concession stand and meeting space for the North Howell Little League has erupted in Howell over the past two weeks. At the heart of the issue is a building that is rising at the North Howell Little League fields on Okerson Road. In 2004, the Township Coun-cil approved the…
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Obituaries
Stephanie Lynn Christopher Ms. Christopher, 33, of Howell, died May 28 at University Hospital, Newark. She was born in Long Branch and had lived in Lindenwold for 12 years before returning to the Freehold area. Ms. Christopher was a lieutenant in the federal Department of Corrections at Fort Dix. She was a 1990 graduate of…
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Public deserves a clear notice of meeting
It must be dj vu. Six years ago someone left a copy of a notification for a public hearing in my mailbox. It was for the Hovbilt project, the 684-acre planned retirement community to be built on top of one of the largest pieces of wetlands in Jackson. Tributaries that feed the headwaters of the…
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SciCore Academy explodes into new space
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Sometime in the future SciCore students may look back upon this time as their alma mater’s big bang. Founded in 2002, the SciCore Academy for Science and the Humanities is a private middle and high school for students in grades six through 12. Students from throughout…
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Jackson school tax situation is frustrating
Wow! What a relief! Who would have guessed it? The Jackson Township Committee shaved 2 cents off the school budget hike. What a joke. Just think if you worked for a large corporation and were earning $100,000 per year. At the start of the next year you ask for a $10,000 raise. Your boss says…
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Lori Clinch
Are We There Yet? If only candles smelled like cleaning products I can remember back when I thought that only special women enjoyed candles about the abode. I was sure that they were women with clean houses and cute hair that dressed smartly and had time to relish regular programming on HGTV. I tried to…
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Organizer asks area residents to volunteer as host families
We seem divided: country against country and group against group. In a world growing ever smaller and more interdependent this is not a good sign, nor a healthy trend. The good news is that we – acting as individuals, families, church and civic groups – can do something about it. Long-term change means starting with…
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Greg Bean
Coda Who wouldn’t want a nice no-show job? If you’re looking for the personification of nearly everything that can be wrong with local government in New Jersey, look no further than Anthony Palughi. Palughi, who was arrested and charged with corruption by the FBI in December 2004, was the state’s key witness in the recent…
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Students rally support for family of teenager
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Within hours of the news of the death of one of their classmates, Goetz Middle School students and staff members raised more than $3,000 for the family of Billy Miller. Billy died on June 15 from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at his home on…
